James B. Waldram

BA [Hons] University of Waterloo 1978; MA University of Manitoba 1980; PhD University of Connecticut 1983

Office: Arts 182
Phone: 966-6170
Email: j.waldram@usask.ca

Courses Taught and In Development

PSY 224: Culture and Psychology

PSY 380: Psychology, Culture and the Therapeutic Process

PSY 480: Aboriginal Mental Health

PSY 801: Culture and Mental Health

ANTH 498: Anthropology of Healing

ANTH 498: Culture, Mind and Experience

ANTH 802: Ethnographic Theory and Method
Student Employment or Research Opportunities

From time to time I require students to assist in data management and analysis.

Research

My research falls within the areas of medical and psychological anthropology, and cultural psychology. I am primarily interested in issues of culture and mental health. My current program of research is in the area of the anthropology of therapeutic intervention, with a special focus on the concept of “healing” in cultural context. I have undertaken fieldwork in more than a dozen Aboriginal communities in Canada, in medical clinics, and in prisons. I have a new ethnography on the treatment experiences of sexual offenders to be published in spring 2012 by the Universiity of California Press. My current projects include field research among a group of Q’eqchi (Maya) healers in southern Belize, and an exploration of the mental and sociocultural implicatons of community evacuation in northern Canada.

Publications

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

Waldram, James B. 2012. Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and

the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Waldram JB. (editor). 2008. Aboriginal healing in Canada: Studies in therapeutic

meaning and practice. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

Waldram JB, Herring DA, Young TK. 2006. Aboriginal health inCanada: Historical,

cultural and epidemiological perspectives. 2^nd Ed. Toronto:University of Toronto Press.

Waldram JB. 2004. Revenge of the Windigo: The construction of the mind and mental

health of North American Aboriginal peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Anthropological Horizons.

Laliberte R, Settee P, Waldram JB, Macdougall B, McBain L, Innes R, Barron, FL.

(editors). 2000. Expressions in Canadian Native Studies. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press.

Waldram JB. 1997. The way of the pipe: Aboriginal spirituality and symbolic healing in

Canadian prisons. Peterborough: Broadview Press.

Chapters in Books

Waldram, JB. 2008. Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada. Handbook of

North American Indians: Contemporary Issues. Pp. 222-230. Washington: Smithsonian Institute.

Waldram JB. 2008. Models and metaphors of healing. In: Aboriginal healing

in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice. James B. Waldram (ed). Pp. 1-8. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

Waldram JB., Innes R, Kaweski M, Redman C. (n.d). Building a nation: Aboriginal

healing in urban context. In: Aboriginal healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice. James B. Waldram (ed). Pp. 205-268. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation. In Press.

Waldram JB. 2008. Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health. In:

L. Kirmayer and G. Valaskakis (Eds). Pp. 56-79. The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Waldram JB, Downe P. 2006. Ex-patriots in the Ivory Tower: The Experiences of

Academic Anthropologists in non-Anthropology Departments. In: Historicizing Canadian Anthropology. J. Harrison and R. Darnell (Eds). Pp. 183-195. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Waldram, J.B. 2010. Moral agency, cognitive distortion, and narrative strategy in the rehabilitation
of sexual offenders. Ethos 38(3): 251-274.
Waldram, J.B. 2010. Engaging engagement: Critical reflections on a Canadian tradition. Anthropologica 52(2): 225-232.
Waldram, J. B. 2009 “It’s just you and Satan, hanging out at a pre-school”: Notions of evil and the
        rehabilitation of sexual offenders. Anthropology and Humanism 34(2): 219-234.
Waldram, J. B, V. Cal, P. Maquin. 2009. The Q’eqchi healers association of Belize: An endogenous movement in heritage
        preservation and management. Heritage Management 2(1):35-54.
Waldram, J.B. 2009. Is there a future for “culture” in acculturation research? An anthropologist’s perspective.
        International Journal of Intercultural Relations 33: 173-176.
Waldram J. B. 2008. The Narrative Challenge to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of
        Sexual Offenders. Culture, Medicine and   Psychiatry 32(3):421-439.
Waldram, J.B. 2007. Narrative and the construction of ‘truth’ in a prison-based
        treatment program for sexual offenders. Ethnography 8(2):145-169.
Waldram J.B. 2007. “Everybody’s Got a Story”: Listening to imprisoned sexual
    offenders. Qualitative Health Research 17(7): 963-970.
Waldram J.B. 2006. The View from the Hogan: Cultural Epidemiology and the
    Return to Ethnography. Transcultural Psychiatry 43(1): 72-85.
Waldram J.B. 2000. The efficacy of traditional medicine: Current theoretical and
    methodological issues. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 14(4):603-625.
Waldram J.B, Whiting J, Habbick B, Kordner N. 2000. Cultural understandings and the use of traditional medicine among      urban Aboriginal people with diabetes in Saskatoon, Canada. Canadian Journal of             Diabetes Care        24(2): 31-38.
Waldram J.B. 1998. Anthropology in prison: Negotiating consent and accountability with a captured population. Human Organization 57(2):238-244.